Posted on 03/03/2021 12:56:16 PM PST by CedarDave
Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney’s name has been removed from a historic warship in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor by the Living Classrooms Foundation.
The foundation’s removal of Taney’s name from the ship serves as the latest in a series of gestures meant to acknowledge past wrongs and signal solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police.
James Piper Bond, LCF president and CEO, said in a statement Wednesday that the organization was inspired to make the change, calling the court ruling “an abomination” and “great injustice” toward Black Americans.
“The national historic landmark we are charged with stewarding should be reflective of our values of equality and opportunity for all,” Bond said. “We are not erasing history. Nor is it our intention to minimize the service and sacrifice of the men and women who have served with honor aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Taney. Our intention is to learn from history and celebrate the legacy of the ship and those who served aboard.”
The ship will, at least for now, be referred to by its hull identification WHEC 37, which stands for high endurance cutter, according to the foundation. The Taney name already has been removed from the ship’s stern.
“The name is being removed because it is a symbol of hate, repression and racial inequality,” said Chris Rowsom, executive director of the Historic Ships in Baltimore museum and vice president of Living Classrooms.
In a statement, U.S. Rep Andy Harris R-MD) said the removal of the name counters the foundation’s educational mission.
“Attempts to re-write shortcomings in our history, instead of using them to educate future generations, is a very bad idea — especially for a museum whose whole stated purpose is history.”
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
She’s a nice looking vessel. What is being done is criminal.
Full stop.
Taney IS an odd choice of someone to celebrate.
“What will the minorities have to complain about then???”
So why don’t we eliminate anything being named after a black person, since they commit major crimes way out of proportion to their percentages of the population? According to the insane abuse of being termed “logical”, only slavery occurring 150 years ago qualifies as a “crime” when it was actually the norm of the times. What about “polar bear hunting”? What about all the murders, rapes, robberies and other major crimes being committed by blacks today, under the current societal norms? The stats show that blacks make up about 13% of the population, yet commit 37% of violent crimes. I assume blacks consider those acts OK, since we don’t hear of them condemning them.
Soon we will have to rename the U.S.S. Missouri herself because of cultural appropriation (The Missorui Native Americans you know).
Oh and becuase she killed a metric ton of yellow and brown people in WW2, Korea and the Gulf.
I certainly will, and thanks for your service, Coastie!
Living Classrooms Foundation = George Soros???
She was at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. She is an historic ship and this renaming is criminal.
It's more of a coincidence than anything else. This class of 327-feet cutters is called the Secretary class. Taney was a Treasury Department secretary who later became a Supreme Court justice. Read more below and at the link:
The Coast Guard named the 327s for former Department of Treasury secretaries. The class included namesakes Alexander Hamilton, George Campbell, Samuel Ingham, William Duane, Roger Taney, John Spencer and George Bibb.
The Long Blue Line: 327-foot Secretary Class Cutters “the ships that wouldn’t die”
The Taney is only one that survives.
You got that right. The city is crumbling - rampant violent crime, streets in disrepair, the public schools are quite simply a disgrace, and the only things holding downtown together are Little Italy and the Johns Hopkins and U of Maryland hospital complexes - but renaming the Taney is a high priority. There is also a Taneytown in Maryland.... are they going to rename that too?
(Pronounced TAWNey, BTW)
Actually he had a pretty good reputation prior to Dred Scott. I think his logic in the decision was pretty good; and the case was decided 7-2. But then "Honest Abe" started a war to overturn the decision.
ML/NJ
Looks like a converted Fletcher.
You know, the guy may be a turd for all I know. But stupidity, racism, stubbornness and cowardice are as much a part of our history as wisdom, egalitarianism, cooperation and bravery.
I simply recoil at this re-writing of history, because it is a slippery slope.
As far as I am concerned, the USCGC Taney is as much a part of our history as the USS Nevada.
Not WHEC-37. That doesn’t mean squat to me or the men who served on her (I presume).
James P. Bond to Americans:
Learn to code.
Americans to James P. Bond:
Learn to swim.
The Taney is only one that survives.
The Taney and Ingham are the only ones that survive.
A lone voice in the wilderness. He's right of course. With technology these days every monument can be an enormous educational opportunity from a variety of perspectives not just historic or political but art, design, construction, finance and more. The more controversial it is, the greater the opportunity to teach and learn.
A Communist Purge Is Underway & Nothing Is Being Done About It!
Did not President Trump get ridiculed when he criticized the start of this process that was THEN removing monuments to the Confederacy. I believe that he said that this movement will spread wider and wider to Jefferson and Washington etc.
I remember the MSM mocked him and blamed him for Charlottesville and that riot. Now we see this as the Cancel-Culture and I fear its likely morphing into a version of Red China’s Cultural Revolution with marching morons led by cynical power seekers! You cannot build when all you want is to destroy!
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